POLL: Favorite Nvidia Partner

[danklumpp]

This is not a fanboy war, just a poll to see which Nvidia Partner is the most liked.

 

[n7]

You're gonna need to add a sh!tload of brands to that poll.

 

[Deinonych]

Yeah, there are more than 4 vendors for nVIDIA. Off the top of my head, I can think of the following: XFX, Chaintech, PNY and Asus.

 

[danklumpp]

I was going for the most known and quality manufacturers

 

[keeleysam]

MSI

 

[klah]

Palit.

 

[Gamingphreek]

Leadtek generally uses the highest quality parts out of all of those, they also tend to OC the highest. There specs can be misleading sometimes. Also, they tend to use different coolers which tend to be very noisy. Overall they are the best out there right now (barring silent computing; Gainwards golden sample line had an edge on them i think though).

MSI was caught about 2 years ago using faulty capacitors on all of their products. They fixed it but the others were not admitted to or recalled. Kinda tainted but now a days a pretty nice (dont deviate from spec as much), but tend to OC well. RIght now they tend to have a good bundle with their cards, but aside from that nothing special of late.

EVGA and BFG are the best bang for your buck you are going to find. They have excellent quality, and the best warranty money can buy. Additionally with EVGA you get the "step up" program. BFG sometimes uses their own cooler, but it normally only offers some flashy lights over the stock cooling.

Asus, although they use very misleading names and specs, use very high quality parts and aftermarket cooling. Tend to be very overpriced though.

PNY/XFX are genrally thought of as bad. XFX has horrible tech support and low quality. Anand didn't seem to find any problems but the many people who bought the cards have found problems with them. PNY, while they aren't as bad as XFX, generally have slow customer service (They are an enormous company), their boards are that bad aside from the fact that they dont OC well at all.

I cant think of others right now...im tired.

-Kevin

 

[imported_Kensai]

eVGA and BFG.